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Minor earthquake 2.82 mag, 29 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii


Earthquake location 18.9816666S, -155.3278351WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.06 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.3278351 West, latitude 18.9816666 North, depth = 45.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:15:32 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 22:15:32 / September 28, 2015 @ 10:15 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61048276. Id of event: hv61048276.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3278351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9816666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-28 22:15:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-28 22:19:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 122 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network hv The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv61048276 Id of event.
Event Code 61048276 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61048276, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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